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- Apr 27, 2020
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- Montreal
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- Cloud Service
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom version 3.3
- Operating System
- Windows 10
This is a potpourri of questions arising out of my moving from full-time Classic to "half-and-half" to Cloudy. (See my earlier thread Splitting my catalog between LR Classic and Lightroom on the Cloud).
1. I made the move to Cloudy in two migrations. I now have two high-level albums and catalogs: Migrated Cloud Catalog (the first migration, name makes sense) and Migrated Master LR Catalog-2-2 (the second and final migration, name a reminder of Classic). Question 1: can I rename the second to something that makes more sense? I have a rename option, but I'm being careful here. Question 2: can I combine the two albums? I suspect not.
2. With Classic all my photographs and catalog were on drive D on my desktop with a mirrored copy on an external drive and another mirror as off-site backup. If drive D failed, I could replace it and copy back from the mirror or assign the drive D designation to the mirror and use it. From a couple of threads here I get the impression that that would not be possible with Cloudy, that Adobe has tied Cloudy to the physical drive and would reconstruct from the Cloud to a new drive. If so, my backup procedure with mirrors is not that useful.
3. Smart previews on drive C. Both my desktop and my Microsoft Surface have small SSDs. It is not possible to store my 80,000 photos from the Cloud as smart previews on either; so that option is turned off on both computers. Correct me if I am wrong; but to me this means that I must always be online to do any work on my Cloud photographs on either computer. Given the number of people putting their systems on SSDs (some small like mine) these days, it is surprising that Adobe has not make another drive an option here.
1. I made the move to Cloudy in two migrations. I now have two high-level albums and catalogs: Migrated Cloud Catalog (the first migration, name makes sense) and Migrated Master LR Catalog-2-2 (the second and final migration, name a reminder of Classic). Question 1: can I rename the second to something that makes more sense? I have a rename option, but I'm being careful here. Question 2: can I combine the two albums? I suspect not.
2. With Classic all my photographs and catalog were on drive D on my desktop with a mirrored copy on an external drive and another mirror as off-site backup. If drive D failed, I could replace it and copy back from the mirror or assign the drive D designation to the mirror and use it. From a couple of threads here I get the impression that that would not be possible with Cloudy, that Adobe has tied Cloudy to the physical drive and would reconstruct from the Cloud to a new drive. If so, my backup procedure with mirrors is not that useful.
3. Smart previews on drive C. Both my desktop and my Microsoft Surface have small SSDs. It is not possible to store my 80,000 photos from the Cloud as smart previews on either; so that option is turned off on both computers. Correct me if I am wrong; but to me this means that I must always be online to do any work on my Cloud photographs on either computer. Given the number of people putting their systems on SSDs (some small like mine) these days, it is surprising that Adobe has not make another drive an option here.